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By: Ben Kane (Print Editor in Chief) The Heritage Foundation, a conservative political group, has shut down its law training academy for clerks of prominent federal judges after a New York Times report showed that graduates of the academy were producing more conservative verdicts. Law academics and professors across the spectrum condemned the Federal Clerkship Training Academy, whose lack of transparency and ideological goals led to many labeling the training workshop as an indoctrination meant to mold and persuade minds that will hold powerful positions in the government in the future. Application materials and other information about the program have since been removed from the Heritage Foundation website. The Heritage Foundation defended the relative secrecy of the program, saying that the security and integrity of it would be compromised by disclosing too much information. “It’s a private program, and that’s the way we want to keep it,” the Foundation said.

By: Anabelle Keimach (Correspondent) The “Camp Fire” camp been ravaging land and infrastructure throughout the town of Paradis, California for over a week now and has killed 77 people so far, becoming the most devastating wildfire the state had ever seen.

By: Jesse Cook (Sports Editor and News Correspondent) Dominique Mann, Sharon High School alum, rose up in the ranks in Washington and eventually became an advisor in the White House to former President Barack Obama. Recently, she organized a march to encourage people to vote called “The Audacity to Love, a March on the Polls.”

By: Rachel Hess Wachman (International News Correspondent) Armed men kidnapped seventy-nine students and three staff members from the Presbyterian Secondary School in Nkwen, a village in Bamenda, which is the capital of Cameroon’s Anglophone region.

By: Bradley Corn (Correspondent) Proponents of Question 1 say that nurses can’t handle the number of patients they are given. Opponents of Question 1 say if this passes, waiting times will go up in hospitals and will negatively affect patient care.

By: Ben Kane (Print Editor and Chief) Despite being a historically solid red state that has produced two presidential nominees since 1964, Arizona’s midterm elections are expecting to be contentious and highly influential.

By: The Economics Club Throughout the month of October, there have been a variety of stocks ranging in popularity where some have improved and others have plummeted. Here are some stocks that we advise to invest in and others to avoid along with future predictions of the stock’s performance in the following months.

By: Rahem Hamid (Correspondent) Jamal Khashoggi disappeared on the 2nd of October, 2018, and no one knows where he is to this day. The Saudi government has said that he did indeed die. However, their reports of how so are so confusing that it’s unclear what’s a lie and what’s more of a lie. At the heart of this all is Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince: Mohammad bin Salman, or MBS.

By: Rachel Hess Wachman (Correspondent) Two hours after Robert Bowers opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, he was taken to the Allegheny General Hospital, where Jewish staffers treated his wounds.

By: Rahem Hamid (News Correspondent) Democracy was restored in Brazil in 1985 ending 21 years of a military dictatorship. But 33 years afterward, Brazil has elected far-right nationalistic populist Jair Bolsonaro.